Israeli occupation forces detained 341 Palestinians including 32 children and 3 women in September 2020

Israeli occupation forces detained 341 Palestinians in September 2020, including 32 children and three women, according to the Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

PPS announced in a fact sheet, co-authored with the Prisoner’s Affairs Commission, the “Wadi Hilweh” Information Center and the Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association (Addameer), that Israeli forces rounded up 341 Palestinians from the occupied territories, including 32 children and three women.

“117 Palestinians were rounded up from Jerusalem district, 25 from Ramallah and al-Bireh, 80 from Hebron, 28 from Jenin, 30 from Bethlehem, nine from Nablus, 13 from Tulkarem, 10 from Qalqilia, six from Jericho, four from Tubas, four from Salfit and 15 from the besieged Gaza Strip,” PPS clarified.

It added that some 4,400 Palestinians, including 39 female detainees, 155 children and 350 others placed under administrative detention, are currently languishing in Israeli detention facilities.

PPS pointed out that the Israeli occupation authorities issued 98 detention orders in September, including 41 new orders and 57 others extending the period of detention.

In another development, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has called on international and humanitarian organizations to interfere immediately and to press the Israeli occupation forces to release the Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras, who is on an 80-day hunger strike since his arrest near Nablus on 27 July.

The ministry affirmed that the prisoner is “on the verge of death” and the Israeli occupation authorities refuse to release him amid world countries’ silence.

Basma Qaddour